Read Series: Brilliance Saga
by Author Marcus Sakey
A Better World (2014)
Nothing spectacular about this book. It was a good follow-on to the previous novel, but lacked some of the heart that showed in the first. Also, I disagreed with the choice of making one of the Brilliants into something more super-natural, rather than an extension-of-natural as all other Brilli...
Brilliance (2013)
A thriller with a slight science fiction edge, this book is set in the present day - but in a world where for the past 30+ years, about one percent of children have been born with extreme savant/genius like talents, for reasons no one knows. The protagonist is himself one of these "abnorms," but...
Die Abnormen (2014)
This is the first in a trilogy, and one of those rare books that I had to force myself to stop reading in order to get some sleep. The premise is brilliant (pun intended): an strange phenom began in the early 1980s in which babies were born super gifted; their gifts varied as did their level of b...